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Thursday, June 2, 2016

Is he unaware that everyone has the technology to call him on his BS?

I’m going to make a confession about Donald Trump. I have no idea
what causes him to do this thing where he just boldly states that he
never said something that he very obviously said before. There are at
least several possible explanations, though.

The first is that he is just experiencing the ravages of age. Trump
is exceptionally old for a Presidential candidate and they say the
memory is the first thing to go. It’s entirely possible that Trump
literally does not remember that he said that Japan should get nukes. I
don’t know why someone doesn’t remind him that he said it before he goes
out and claims that he never said it, but

Trump isn’t surrounded by
competent people, so that’s pretty much all the explanation you need.

The second is that he is just unaware of the fact that he has cameras
on him all the time now, and that anyone with access to the Internet
can easily go back and find him contradicting himself. So maybe the
answer is not advancing dementia, but rather that he thinks he can get
away with it because he’s just unaware that everyone has the technology
to call him on his BS these days.

The third is that he assumes that no one will care, and that this
assumption is based on how his followers to this point have behaved.
Certainly, the 43% of Republican voters who voted for him in the primary
have not shown any sort of willingness to be swayed with facts, or to
care about the fact that Trump is a pathological liar, but Trump’s
assumption that this will translate to the general election is a bold
one, indeed. (Continues with video included)